One Breath

By Catharine Clark-Sayles

Poetry. In these poems of the anatomy lab, the emergency room, and the garden, the language of medicine is fused into lyrics of house calls and nursing home rounds and infused with all of the love and grief of caring for and losing a patient. The title comes from a teacher who instructed that when faced with a crisis the way to proceed is to take one breath and then another. Over the last two decades, Catharine Clark-Sayles has worked to undo the habits of dry clinical reportage for a more lyrical narration while finding the beauty of medical language. She is published widely in medical journals and anthologies. ONE BREATH is her debut collection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893670317
• ISBN13: 9781893670310
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Tebot Bach
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 17 years and up